Then a great English army was gathered from Wiltshire and from Hampshire and they were going very resolutely towards the enemy. The ealdorman Ælfric was to lead the army, but he was up to his old tricks. As soon as they were so close that each army looked on the other, he feigned him sick, and began retching to vomit, and said that he was taken ill, and thus betrayed the people whom he should have led. As the saying goes: “When the leader gives way, the whole army will be much hindered.”

Colorado Springs, Colorado, Oct. 30, 2003 (AP). An Army interrogator has been charged with cowardice for allegedly refusing to do his work in Iraq…. An October 14 charge sheet accuses him of “cowardly conduct as a result of fear, in that he refused to perform his duties.” … In an interview … Sergeant [Georg Andreas] Pogany … said he was with a team of Green Berets near Samarra, north of Baghdad on Sept. 29 when he saw the mangled body of an Iraqi. He said he began shaking and vomiting and he was terrified he would be killed. Sergeant Pogany said he told his team sergeant he was headed for a “nervous breakdown” and needed help. After that, he said, he was not asked to go on missions. “I don’t know how asking for help qualified as misbehavior,” Sergeant Pogany said. “You ask for help and they throw the book at you.”